Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They danced two dances together — or , rather , one and a half , for in the middle of the second , a waltz , he complained of feeling hot and giddy and she took him to sit out at the side . |
| 2 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 3 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 4 | Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively . |
| 5 | No , it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy . |
| 6 | Watching him stare gloomily at the table , Lucy said impulsively , ‘ Perhaps I could help . |
| 7 | The spoilt , black-haired girl sitting beside him staring out at the river . |
| 8 | He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll bet she 'd like him to end up at the foot of the cliff , ’ said a voice . |
| 10 | Why else would she have looked away from him to glance idly at the clock ? |
| 11 | They heard him battering furiously at the panels and shouting hoarsely : ‘ What do you want with him ? |
| 12 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 13 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 14 | He stabbed angrily at the button . |
| 15 | He glowed now at the Archdeacon . |
| 16 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 17 | Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London . |
| 18 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 19 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 20 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 21 | I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism . |
| 22 | Then he gazed absently at the window for some minutes , blinking . |
| 23 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 24 | I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about . |
| 25 | He gazed again at the madonna he had sat beside when her child was just born . |
| 26 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 27 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |
| 28 | A few days after his mother died , a friend recalls that he gazed lovingly at a photograph of his mother , while pondering whether life continues after death . |
| 29 | He gazed longingly at the sandwiches , Gentleman 's Relish , but he did not take one — neither did Aunt Tossie eat her scone . |
| 30 | He gazed wildly at the neighbour who said crossly , ‘ Jean Powers . |